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BabyGap Rolls Out Casting Call
BabyGap is putting the call out to moms and dads who think they have the cutest babies as part of a new contest to feature tots in an upcoming ad for the brand.
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Pepsi and DUB Magazine Throw Online Auto Show
Pepsi has partnered with automotive lifestyle brand DUB and its annual custom auto show in an online contest that lets consumers post their own tricked-out autos to a microsite for a chance to win prizes.
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7-Eleven New Start Time for White Sox Games
7-Eleven is ramping up its image in the Chicago area by letting Chicagoans know that apart from being a convenience store, 7:11 is now the new start time for home games of the Chicago White Sox. 7-Eleven inked the sponsorship deal with the Major League Baseball team last week that will run through 2009.
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Wendy’s Sharpens Focus with $31 Million Baja Fresh Sale
Wendy’s International, Inc. said it is focusing its efforts on its main Wendy’s franchise with the sale of the Baja Fresh Mexican Grill restaurant chain.
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Home Depot Shuffles Execs, Names Adams CMO
The Home Depot promoted Roger Adams to CMO last week in a management shuffle that separates marketing from merchandising in order to improve both at the store level.
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Loose Cannon: A Few Pearl(stein)s of Wisdom Close to DMA Annual
During a recent cleaning frenzy, I came across two columns from Washington Post business reporter Steven Pearlstein. I
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Web Site Offers Designer Bags for Rent
Kara Richter had one goal in mind when she co-founded From Bags to Riches in 2004: bringing high fashion to people in the not-so-high income brackets.
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Palsy-Walsy
Shades of 1999! Social networks got hot this summer when both Google and Microsoft announced deals to add search and syndicated contextual ads to MySpace
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Magical Thinking
JUSTIFICATION IS THE name of the game when it comes to determining a direct marketing budget. It’s no longer good enough to make generalizations about
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Attention to Retention
TEN YEARS AGO, Frederick Reichheld’s The Loyalty Effect demonstrated to the world that a five-percentage-point decrease in customer defections could improve